Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 5

Think of writing one hundred and five: without a zero, how would you tell 105 from 15?

Who acts: you · What happens: think, write, tell · To what, where: one hundred, 105, 15 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	3 writing	mark
3	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Think	advcl
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 writing	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 five	cc
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 zero	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 zero	det
11	zero	zero	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 tell	advmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Think	parataxis
17	105	105	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 tell	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 15	case
19	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 tell	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	write	gerund	you not said here	one hundred			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	would	you	105	15	without a zero	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 105=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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